I feel sorry for the guy. Clearly, he got ripped off. He bet the company that he could use the spectrum that they owned for communications, and he didn’t get his permission from the FCC. What ever happened to “Our government - the best government money can buy”?
Yep, I guess he did get a bit of a ripping, so sad.
Fortunately there was an Air Force general that took his oath of office a lot more seriously than the CINC, I doubt Obama or Falcone planned on that. ;-)
The GPS’s of the land all united and said no. The signal strength they’d need in the spectrum he wanted would have assured the confusion of practically every existing GPS, which uses a frequency very close with selectivity which is not exactly stellar. If GPS had been designed out of the gate with the usage of such close spectrum in mind, things might have been different, but when you have an established application with millions of users it is hard to tell them all to scrap their equipment and buy new.